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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 23
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Labor not to be rich—As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he—Withhold not correction from a child—Be not among winebibbers.
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When</span> thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what <i>is</i> before thee:
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And put a knife to thy throat, if thou <i>be</i> a man given to <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Word of Wisdom.">appetite</a>.
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Be not desirous of his <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR delicacies.">dainties</a>: for they <i>are </i>deceitful meat.
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Labour not to be <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/4a" mark="a" type="C" title="Jacob 2: 19 (18-19); TG Treasure.">rich</a>: cease from thine own <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/23/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 28 (28, 42).">wisdom</a>.
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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?  for <i>riches</i> certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
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Eat thou not the bread of <i>him that hath</i> an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
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For as he <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Motivations.">thinketh</a> in his <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/23/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Heart.">heart</a>, so <i>is</i> he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart <i>is</i> not with thee.
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The morsel <i>which</i> thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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Speak not in the ears of a <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 24: 7; Matt. 7: 6; Matt. 15: 26 (26-28); D&C 6: 12 (10-12); D&C 10: 37 (36-37).">fool</a>: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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Remove not the old <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 22: 28.">landmark</a>; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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For their redeemer <i>is</i> mighty; he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 22: 23.">plead</a> their cause with thee.
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Apply thine heart unto <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 88: 118 (118-122).">instruction</a>, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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Withhold not <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Chastening; TG Family, Children, Responsibilities toward.">correction</a> from the child: for <i>if</i> thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
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Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
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Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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Let not thine heart envy <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 24: 1, 19.">sinners</a>: but <i>be thou</i> in the fear of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> all the day long.
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For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
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Be not among <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB imbibers of wine.">winebibbers</a>; among <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/23/20b" mark="b" type="F" title="OR gluttonous eaters of meat; TG Rioting and Reveling.">riotous</a> eaters of flesh:
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Temperance; TG Word of Wisdom.">drunkard</a> and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe <i>a man</i> with rags.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Children, Duties of.">Hearken</a> unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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Buy the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Truth.">truth</a>, and sell <i>it</i> not; <i>also</i> wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise <i>child</i> shall have joy of him.
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Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
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My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Watchfulness.">observe</a> my ways.
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For a <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 42: 23 (23-24).">whore</a> <i>is</i> a deep ditch; and a strange woman <i>is</i> a narrow pit.
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She also lieth in wait as <i>for</i> a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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Who hath woe?  who hath sorrow?  who hath <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Contention.">contentions</a>?  who hath babbling?  who hath wounds without cause?  who hath redness of eyes?
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They that tarry long at the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Temperance.">wine</a>; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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Look not thou upon the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Drunkenness.">wine</a> when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, <i>when</i> it moveth itself aright.
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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/32a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a kind of poisonous snake.">adder</a>.
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Thine eyes shall behold <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/23/33a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR foreign women.">strange</a> women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
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They have stricken me, <i>shalt thou say, and</i> I was not sick; they have beaten me, <i>and</i> I felt <i>it</i> not: when shall I awake?  I will seek it yet again.
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